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>>8936856
But books are pc and really restricted a lot of the time.

>>8936856
t. 4chan

I'm not sure if I was doing it wrong, but I read a lot of books when I was a kid and nowadays I just browse 4chan.

>>8936853

In Classics there are good vocabulary tools that can generate a list of, say all words in a given author used more than once. I've always found it's best to grind through a few thousand words and know them inside and out rather than going in "blind". I don't know if such resources exist for French. I wouldn't memorize every single word you look up. You can actually remember many words by re-reading what you've already read several times. Eventually you reach a point with a language where you're looking up <50 words for every 30 minutes of reading and at that point you can start memorizing everything you look up but at the start that's probably too many words many of which you might not see again for months or years.

>>8936853
Depends on your fluency, and depends on the type of book.

The best thing to do (to improve your proficiency) is to stop every time to search the word; or at least to write it down in a text file, then search for the meaning later. But, indeed, it will impede the flow if there are too many unknown words.

In my experience, it's okay to break the flow if it's an essay, less okay with a novel, and not okay at all with a play or a long poem (whose aesthetic effect works on the fact you don't disrupt the flow). So, if you're not fluent enough, read essays rather than poetry. Short aphorisms work well too (La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues, La Bruyère, Chamfort, etc.).

Also, consider e-readers with an internal dictionary. You click on the word, the meaning is shown, done.

>disclaimer: I'm French and what I do applies to what I read in English

>start reading Proust in French
>struggle miserably
>too far in to just quit

>>8936844
Why would you want to enlighten a manchild?

>>8936931
>"lel those fucking geeks who code with their stupid computers all day, I'm glad that I'm way above them"
>proceeds to browse on 4chan for the rest of the day

>>8936931
>>8936969
The verb enlighten is a bit too intense. But because I have no need to feel superior, I just want to share interesting stuff with people who are unaware of its existence/worth.

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>>8936777
who are you to say what is and is not poetry

haven't you ever read any rupi kaur?

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>implying you're not interested

>>8936777
>Everything past the 19th century is pure garbage

Probably the worst, most uninformed opinion I've ever seen on this goddamn board

McLuhan and Postman wrote a lot of bullshit but are invaluable in that they teach you to start thinking critically about media itself rather than just what media says.

I haven't come across the new generation of media studies writers who would address things like the internet and smart phones, but I'm sure they must be out there.

>>8936760
I don't know about anything modern but if you like McLuhan you can go back and read Harold Innis's work. McLuhan said:
>I am pleased to think of my own book The Gutenberg Galaxy as a footnote to the observations of Innis on the subject of the psychic and social consequences, first of writing then of printing.

Innis's Empire and Communications is here:
https://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/innis-empire/innis-empire-00-h.html

>redpilled

Back to your containment board. Read Baudrillard though.

>I'M A WRITER YOU GUYS I WROTE 40,000 WORDS I'M WRITINNNGGGGGG
just fuck off. write your fucking shit or don't, nobody cares either way

>>8936738
;_; well, okay

>>8936734
If you're not enjoying yourself and you're seriously expecting to make money, then yes, you're almost certainly wasting your time.

>>8936711
Very true. French philosophy is the origin of democracy and enlightenment.
Germans are machinators of barbarism

English philosophy's where it's really at, they did the whole enlightenment deal before the french anyway.

>>8936740
English enlightenment was a false one, they simply reverted to a new dogmatism

>>8936680
if you're 80 pages in he killed an old lady and her sister with an axe
>inb4 spoilers
don't lie then

>>8936688
No he didn't do it yet. I closed the book after he met that drunk adolescent and the guy that was creeping on her in the boulevard.

He's painting Rodya's inner psyche and the misery of the city for now.
Yeah, the plot is pretty slow in a way, it's proto-stream-of-consciousness.

>>8936679
I'm retarded.

>>8936679
i think you should report back when youre done because the book is massive and im afraid of committing to it

>>8936679
It's my favorite Pynchon book.

You know how there's like World War and shit? You think there ever will be Great Internet War? Will it fuel progress like those other wars did?

>>8936674
The arab spring was originally dubbed the twitter wars by the press. That's because USA and jews used the internet to spark unrest and create revolt.

>>8936667
No. Why would there be? The Internet changes so rapidly.

I thought his Bane was kind of stupid, but overall great.

Great writer but I never really understood Bathsheba Everdene. She starts off a strong, shrewd businesswoman, then develops into a weak, fickle cunt. By the end of the book she's pretty much responsible for a man having a breakdown and going to prison but I'm somehow meant to be happy for her in the end. Fuck her.

>>8936660
He's a big guy.

>>8936590
Now I'd like a glass of bourbon and a smoke. Thanks OP.

>>8936590
i know that i know nothing.

but actually the love is the answer

the only important thing to know is where to stop in your knowledge quest. cause it can be infinite.

>>8936569
pretty good. one of the better sci fi series out there

endymion/rise of endymion not as good

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>>8936575
my girl has those lying around, still worth a try?

haven't read the rise, but the other 3 were really good sci-fi, though hyperion and the fall are absolutely better

>>8936567
kill all pseuds

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>8936567
>The Greeks are boring
Then go read ASOFAI

>>8936576
It's ASOIAF
And I already did :^(

>>8936509
If you're reading public domain classics, go to
>gutenberg
>internet archive
>google books

If you're looking for something modern, try an online search for a pdf or something. If you can't find anything you may be out of luck. Scribd gives you a free trial for a little bit, so that may get you access to a few books you want to read.

Open library

>>8936509
Library Genesis (libgen.io) is what I use for phone. Most of their files in "Fiction" are mobi, txt, or other mobile files. Download a free reader app from the PlayStore.